Breast Cancer Fake News
The ' secret ' breast cancer cure, that the pharmaceutical industry has known about and hidden from patients in an effort to make money, has been revealed and been approved by the FDA. Now you can just get an (side effect free) injection and are immunized from any potential cancer diagnosis. One lifetimeCures are also in the works for congestive heart failure, emphysema, Alzheimers, AML, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia. These should be approved by the FDA by the end of the year.As a result the world ' s population is now increasing at an exponential rate. NASA is developing new plans for colonies on Mars in the ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: fake news wishful thinking Source Type: blogs
Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia Prevented by Buprenorphine?
“Buprenorphine is a kappa receptor antagonist. For these reasons, buprenorphine might be unique in its ability to treat chronic pain and possibly OIH.”
The opioid crisis has been fueled by the use of opioids to treat chronic pain. Practice patterns have changed, but doctors are still criticized for their roles in the overuse of opioids. I’ve sat through community ‘heroin forums’ (sometimes on stage) as sheriffs, politicians, and ‘recovered addicts’ firmly pointed fingers at health professionals. I, meanwhile, kept my finger under the table, but had the thought that some of the people pointing ...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - February 5, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeffrey Junig MD PhD Tags: Acute Pain Buprenorphine Chronic pain Suboxone treatment buprenorphine treats chronic pain chronic pain treatment opioid induced hyperalgesia opioid pain relief pain vs. addiction Source Type: blogs
Managing That Sleep Thing
Yesterday I got to my last craft show of the season. I got set up and then sat down in my booth to regroup before the show started. I was nice and warm and I started to fall asleep. At 9 o ' clock in the morning. In front of hundreds of people. Several times during the day, I had to get up and walk around (and steal fudge samples from the booth next to me for the caffeine) to stay awake.Why do I get so tired? One of the many reasons is the fatigue caused by my fibromyalgia (and its insomnia) and rheumatoid, to a lesser degree. It also turns out I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea which causes me not to sleep very well. ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 4, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: apnea fatigue lack of sleep Source Type: blogs
Pre and Post Cancer
There is a picture of me around here from back when we were dating. My then boyfriend-now-husband asked me for a framed photo for an occasion birthday/Christmas done by a professional photographer. So I went to a local studio and had a picture done where I look young and healthy. The picture has been some place packed away for a while but now is featured prominently in his office, also know as our second bedroom.As I walk by that picture these days, more frequently now considering where it is now positioned, I contemplate, me post cancer. In the picture I have long hair with natural blonde highlights. I was a goodthirty fo...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: aging coping happiness marriage medical crap pictures Source Type: blogs
Yes I Do Have Back Pain In The Middle of My Back
Yesterday I went back to my pain management nurse practitioner yesterday. I felt like it was pulling teeth to get her to admit that there might be an additional source of pain in the thoracic area if my spine (that ' s the middle part - lumbar is the lower part, cervical is the upper part including your neck).She saw my x-rays which my rheumatologist pointed out to me as showing possible sources of pain. She didn ' t think they could be causing that much pain. She did push on my back to see if it hurt (how thoughtful of her). She nearly pushed me across the room as she pressed on my spine. Yes it hurt. A lot.Finally she ag...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 17, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: back pain doctors MRI Source Type: blogs
FDA Hears Results of Two Different Off-Label Surveys of Consumers at Recent Public Hearing
At the recent Part 15 FDA hearing on off-label promotion (seehere) results from two different consumer/patient surveys were presented. The first was presented by John Mack (i.e., me), Editor ofPharma Marketing News (PMN) and the second was presented by Dr. Doris Peter, Principal Investigator, Best Buy Drugs Project at Consumer Reports (CR).The PMN survey was administered byinVibe Research, which collects responses via automated, voice-response surveys. Fifty-on respondents were reached via a network of patient community partnerships. These included 40 patient advocates, 20 chronic condition patients (diabetes, fibromyalgi...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - November 11, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Consumer Reports FDA off-label promotion Patient Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Pain Management
There is a lot of information on pain management. I even have a pain management doctor. But what constitutes pain management? I have several prescriptions for pain management - patches, pills, etc. I go to the gym and exercise to help control my pain. I do regular stretching and exercises for pain management.As you can see, pain management is not just about medication and injections. I want more than that. But I am not sure my doctor understands that. If I go to my pain management doctor and tell him my pain is acting up, he always tells me the same things:Don ' t sit around, get up and move.Here ' s more medication.He nev...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 9, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: medical tests MRI over treatment uncertainty with doctors Source Type: blogs
Why Can't I Sleep?
So I am always in pursuit of the land of nod. The only way I seem to be able to sleep is to take a sleeping pill but that doesn ' t guarantee a full night ' s sleep. If I get so exhausted I can ' t watch tv I usually get a couple of hours of sleep. Sometimes I can even sleep all night. But I ' ll tell you my secret for sanity in the middle of the night. I pull out my tablet and play computer games until I can fall back to sleep.I am always looking for help with sleep. WebMD can always provide assistance with all things medical. They sent me an email the other day on theCauses of Fatigue and Seepiness and How to Fight Them....
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 25, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: lack of sleep Source Type: blogs
Fibromyalgia: Medicine ’s F-word
On my last day of internal medicine residency, as I finished my senior grand rounds presentation, I “came out” to my colleagues and confessed the deep dark secret I had been hiding since medical school: I have fibromyalgia.
A few jaws literally dropped, and there was an awkward silence, then polite applause. Afterwards several of my colleagues came up to talk with me privately and were offended and/or curious as to why I had never mentioned my health in the three years we had worked together nearly every day. And I told them all the same thing: Fibromyalgia still has a powerful stigma to it, which is why I refer to it,...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ginevra-liptan" rel="tag" > Ginevra Liptan, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Rheumatology Source Type: blogs
That Breast Cancer Bond Thingy
While I was at the gym yesterday, I was on the bike getting my cardio in when I two women who I know started talking next to me. Then one of them came over to said hi. I knew she had a lot of cardiac issues last spring and I asked her how she was doing. She said she is better now but still had some soreness on the side of her rib cage. That didn ' t seem like a cardio issue so I asked her what it was.She had a mastectomy because she had her third occurrence of breast cancer. Twice on the left and this third time on the right. And all three were different cancers. I thought wow three different breast cancers and now two sep...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer bonds pinkification Source Type: blogs
Are these prescription drugs preventing your weight loss?
A number of drugs prescribed to treat common conditions, such as hypertension, allergies, depression, inflammation, and diabetes, block your ability to lose weight. Several of these drugs actually cause weight gain, and most doctors fail to inform their patients of such side effects. Among the drugs that block weight loss are:
Beta-blockers: metoprolol, atenolol, carvedilol, and propranolol
Antidepressants: amitriptyline (Elavil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), doxepin, paroxetine (Paxil), trazodone, and others
Steroids: prednisone and hydrocortisone (but not inhaled or nasal steroids for allergies)
Antihistamines: diphenhydr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Depression Dr. Davis Drugs and wheat Nutritional supplements Weight loss Wheat Belly Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat Belly Total Health Wheat-Free Lifestyle anxiety Source Type: blogs
NCCIH: Co-opting “ nonpharmacologic ” treatments for pain as being “ alternative ” or “ complementary ”
I’ve been critical of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), which was until relatively recently known as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) ever since I first discovered that it existed, lo, these many years ago. When I first discovered NCCIH, what struck me is how much pseudoscience it… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 12, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Politics #talkpain acupuncture chronic pain fibromyalgia low back pain National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health NCCAM NCC Source Type: blogs
Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
This report outlines such egregious failings as outcome thresholds that overlapped with entry criteria, mid-trial promotion of the therapies under investigation, failure to provide the original results as outlined in the protocol, failure to adhere to a specific promise in the protocol to inform participants about the investigators’ conflicts of interest, and other serious lapses.
Virology Blog first posted the open letter in November, with six signatories (link to letter). At that time, Dr. Horton’s office responded that he would reply after returning from “traveling.” Three months later, we still...
Source: virology blog - August 29, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary adaptive pacing therapy chronic fatigue syndrome cognitive behavior therapy graded exercise therapy mecfs myalgic encephalomyelitis PACE trial specialist medical care The Lancet Source Type: blogs
Just like Atkins ’ . . . only better
This question comes up with some regularity: Is the Wheat Belly lifestyle like the Atkins’ diet? Is Wheat Belly just another name for a low-carb diet?
There are indeed some important areas of overlap. The Wheat Belly lifestyle, for instance, adheres to the concept that carbohydrates, not fats, are responsible for destructive health effects and weight gain. We also need to give Dr. Robert Atkins and his low-carb predecessors great credit for voicing their opinions during an age when low-carb was an heretical, against-the-mainstream concept, given the antics of Dr. Ancel Keys, Dr. Henry Blackburn, the US Department of ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 19, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle atkins blood sugar diabetes gluten grains Inflammation low-carb low-fat Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
New Questions To Ponder
Sometimes I think I should stop receiving and reading emails. I got too many this week:Is Your Fibromyalgia Primary or Secondary? Basically from which ailment your fibromyalgia is manifesting it will indicate the correct direction for a more successful treatment protocol.New Guidelines for Adults with Chronic Pain and a History of Cancer - Oh, joy. Just another example of how cancer changes everything..." If a patient reports new onset of pain, clinicians should evaluate and monitor for recurrent disease, second malignancy, or late-onset effects of treatment. "How does that sound? Because with cancer, every pain not o...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 12, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments complications prognosis Source Type: blogs
